Daily Quiz #526
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 27 June 2010
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Q1.
What is the driest region of the USA?
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Q2.
What name is given to the silvery aureole enveloping the sun's chromosphere?
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Q3.
Traditionally, what is shouted by a town crier?
Note: This question was updated in January 2018
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Q4.
The main characters of which play by Henrik Ibsen are Dr. Thomas Stockmann, his wife and three children, and Peter Stockmann, the Mayor, who is his elder brother?
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Q5.
What nationality was J Landy, who broke Roger Bannister's record for the mile of 3 minutes 59.4 seconds by recording 3 minutes 58 seconds on 21 June 1954?
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Q6.
Tansu Ciller became the first female Prime Minister of which Muslim country in 1993?
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Q7.
The phrase "Victorian Values" is most associated with which 20th century British Prime Minister?
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